The Range Rover Sport presents the driver with a massive console and instrument panel holding a bank of plastic buttons and a small, green monochrome display. The standard navigation system uses its own touch-screen LCD, set in the middle of the dashboard. No audio or phone information is shown on the LCD. We do like the keypad on the instrument panel, which makes it easy to dial phone numbers with a Bluetooth-paired phone. Two phone buttons on the steering wheel let you initiate and end phone calls. There is also a voice command button on the steering wheel, but it only works with the navigation system. When we delved into its help menus, it told us we could use the command "Display audio information," along with a few similar commands, but none of these had any effect.
The navigation system does standard route guidance, offering a choice of three routes to a destination. It is DVD-based, but seemed quick enough to calculate routes, although we did notice some delays when it needed to call up a list of cities, for example. Appropriate for the Range Rover Sport, the navigation system offers latitude/longitude entry for destinations, along with the other more common address and point of interest. Also accessible in the navigation system is an off-road mode, which accepts that the vehicle won't be traveling on any roads in its database, and will record a breadcrumb trail of the car's route, making it easy to find your way back out of whatever you've gotten yourself into.
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